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Sales Development Specialist-Automotive

SABIC is now hiring a Sales Development Specialist- Automotive, focusing on South-West Germany. The Challenge In this role you are fully accountable for the assigned set of automotive key customers (Revenue and margin responsibilities) including price- and contract negotiations, Risk management & credit collection in co-operation with finance, Logistic and Claim handling together with Customer Service, Project development with our Technical Service Engineers as well as helping to identify new innovative ideas within the automotive arena. The candidate will be the main driver and coordinator for the successful implementation of our growth strategy at buying customer base (typically Tier 1 or bigger converters) and OEM’s as well as new potential accounts. This includes the ownership for new projects, translation activities as well as share/shift activities. Other activities, typical for a key-account management role, are included such as the organization of high level visits, road shows and seminars, Marketing Communication Activities, such as fare & congress visits and presentations. Collection and observation of competition is a natural part of the role. The candidate needs to be able to develop good relationships within all hierarchy levels at customers and within SABIC IP to accomplish the challenging tasks. Your Profile Technical/polymer background with 5+ years in an automotive environment Sales and/or Technical Marketing Experience in polymers Project management skills, strong communicator Authentic personality – a good ambassador for the SABIC brand to outside world Fluent in German language and very good English skills Likes intensive travelling within Germany and come to the headquarters at Bergen op Zoom/Sittard or international travel when needed to fulfill the role. Should have the vision to stay at least 5 years in the role Used and enjoys to work within an international team Self-starter and pushing when necessary, used to work from home office environment Dynamic, optimistic character with a “can do” attitude Location: home-office, preferably south-west Germany Further Information For more information about this role you can contact: Boudewijn de Heer,Recruiter at +31 614 29 11 91 If interested , please respond before the closing date of:May 13th Keywords: Sales, Development, South-West Germany,Plastics,Automotive,Technical/polymer Chemistry that matters SABIC, headquartered in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and metals. We supply these materials to other companies, who use them to make products on which the world has come to depend. In Europe, SABIC employs over 6,000 professionals and is running 6 world-scale production sites and 4 technology & innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (Netherlands) Bergen op Zoom (The Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium). Based upon this strong fundament, we are a key producer of olefins, polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics resins, films and sheets in Europe. The essence of SABIC is about powering ambition. Through what we do and how we to it, we power the ambitions of our customers, the society in which we operate, our business partners and our employees. Our focus puts our customers’ success at the heart of what we do. It also fuels individual development. It is grounded in a deep understanding of what customers want and what we can best offer them. To achieve this we strongly invest in our most important asset – our employees. We want to help you develop a career with us that challenges you in ways that really make you come alive. Make your career happen with SABIC.